Chad Pennington Will Get Revenge on the Jets
NFL August 27th. 2008, 2:30pm
One of our fantasy football strategies is always to search the schedule to find out who the weakest teams are playing, and pick that defense each week. This year, the end zone-challenged are easy to spot: Atlanta, Kansas City, Miami and Baltimore.
Team you can cross off that list in Week 1: Miami, which has decided to start Ricky Williams at RB and Chad Pennington at QB in its season opener against the rival Jets. All the pomp and circumstance will be surrounding Brett Favre’s first game with the Jets … and we’re 99 percent certain that the “Chad’s revenge” tabloid headlines can be (bad pun alert) penned now. Why?
Most Jets fans will blast Pennington for his noodle arm and the boring nature of his dink-and-dunk offense. All true. Also true: In his three close-to-full seasons (2002, 2004, 2006), when Pennington started 12, 13, and 16 games, respectively, he guided the Jets to the postseason each time.
In 2002, he led the Jets to a 41-0 playoff romp of Indy before losing at Oakland; in 2004, he led the Jets to an overtime playoff win at favored San Diego, and then narrowly lost to Pittsburgh (in a game the Jets would have won, if they had a kicker), and in 2006, the Jets lost in New England to the Patriots in the first round of the playoffs.
Yup, we just took the over on 5.5 Dolphins wins this season.
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August 27th, 2008 at 2:33 PM
What did we learn? Having a healthy quarterback is more good than bad.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:36 PM
I hate the Dolphins and the J-E-T-S.
GO BILLS
August 27th, 2008 at 2:41 PM
It doesn’t matter the Bills and the 49ers are gonna meet in the Super Bowl
/Chris Berman
The Fish will beat the Jets.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:41 PM
the only reason he didn’t play most of 2007 was because he got benched for poor play…he missed one game because of an ankle sprain, he just played like crap.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Pennington throws like a woman. This is just nonsense.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Elmo has gotten so preachy lately.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Chad Pennington is lightyears better than most people give him credit for.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Elmo helped Jerry Glanville pioneer the Run and Shoot offense.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:50 PM
A woman got the Jets to the playoffs when healthy!
xv is onto something.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:53 PM
A woman got the Jets to the playoffs when healthy!
I rember those days like 4 years ago. I love Eric Barton make them earn it.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:53 PM
He is so easy to defend. Take away the middle and force him to throw outs. I think most teams have figured that out and is why in the more recent years he throws almost as many interceptions as touchdowns.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Pennington’s arm strength + Ted Ginn’s speed= a lot of screen passes.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:55 PM
kordell got the steelers to the playoffs multiple times too…
August 27th, 2008 at 2:57 PM
I belive Grossman got the Bears to the superbowl.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:57 PM
danny kanell led the giants to a division title and swept the division.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:58 PM
love chad, but favre was too good to pass up. as for
that’s not entirley correct, they would have won if Herm had a clue. up to that point no kicker had ever made a FG from either spot at Heinz Field from where Brien was lined up. Herm actaully took a knee to move Brien further back for the last attempt. The blame for that loss goes squarely on the shoulders of Herm. He should have been fired right after that game.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:00 PM
God I love football season
August 27th, 2008 at 3:01 PM
@Irish: Just like Tim Russert would say! You from up there? I am too, although now live in South Florida
August 27th, 2008 at 3:03 PM
@jpq- yes i am. I lived in Buffalo for 20 years. I also live in South Florida
August 27th, 2008 at 3:06 PM
@irish: Small world. email me at jpq1999@yaoo.com if you want. Do you watch the Bills games on Sundays?
August 27th, 2008 at 3:07 PM
that’s yahoo, obviously
August 27th, 2008 at 3:09 PM
The Ontario Bills!
August 27th, 2008 at 3:15 PM
@jpq- one question though. Who is the best center in the NBA?
August 27th, 2008 at 3:16 PM
I’ll answer that: Oden
August 27th, 2008 at 3:17 PM
I will take the 5.5 over for the Dolphins as well. They could have had 6 or so wins last season as it was.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:23 PM
@Irish: Buffalo Bob Lanier or Buffalo Braves’ Bob McAdoo. I’m “Old School” -lol
August 27th, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Shenanigans, TBL.
No Jets fan–that is, no fan who has watched more than 4 Jets games in the last 6 years–can possibly think that Chad Pennington is a good QB. He is God-awful.
The revenge factor means the Jets-Dolphins game should be close, but the Dolphins are terrible. I just don’t think the Jets lose that game.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Go fins. I’m thrilled we have Pennington.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:46 PM
@CRM
AMEN…